Digikam recursive tags

[Henrik Hemrin]

Hello,

I use the metadata. I moved my collection a while ago from macOS to Linux.

When I use digiKam, I write metadata (in addition to data bases), to 
file and xmp sidecar (re sidecar, decide if you want t use the digiKam 
syntax eg file1.jpg.xmp or what digiKam define as commercial, chexkbox 
below, eg file1.xmp), and be observant if you have both type of sidecars 
in your files which may cause it reads for you wrong file. I think it 
reads meta data in photo files firstly, but read the digiKam 
documentation for details.

So, I did not export any of digiKam databases. When I had moved photo 
collection incl sidecars, and I took the opportunity to do some 
reorganization, I imported them to digiKam (mind settings for reading 
metadata in your settings) and let digiKam build new database data. I do 
not have any eg face learning data I wanted to keep from old machine.

This worked well for me. But again, I think you can find further details 
in the documentation.

Regards
Henrik

Den 2023-12-30 kl. 11:34, skrev Laurens Swarte:
> Good day,
> 
> My name is Laurens. I am 61 years old and new to Digikam on Ubuntu. I 
> have two computers running Digikam, a desktop PC and a laptop.
> 
> I moved my photo's from my desktop with a well organised library, with 
> all databses, to my laptop. Somehow that doesn't work. If I click on my 
> thumbnails pictures will not open in the image editor and my tags 
> library is mixed up.
> 
> Are there any other users out there moving their pictures from one 
> computer to the other? How do you perform this, to me, as an absolute 
> beginner, daunting task?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any attempt to help me,
> 
> with kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> LaurensSwarte
> the Netherlands